Glassdoor

California
Commercial and Professional Services

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Summary:

Glassdoor has not publicly fired customers, suppliers, or vendors based on views or beliefs. Glassdoor uses its corporate reputation to advance ideological causes, including LGBTQ causes. However, it has not used its corporate funds to support ideological groups or agendas hostile to freedom of expression. For these reasons, Glassdoor receives a Medium Risk rating.

Criteria
Risk Level
Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Glassdoor has not publicly fired customers, suppliers, or vendors based on views or beliefs (1).

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
N/A
Rationale

Glassdoor has not published its charitable giving policy.

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Glassdoor has not published its nondiscrimination policy, aside from its Terms of Service (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Glassdoor added online filters to help people find jobs according to company DEI ratings and sexual orientation policies (1). Glassdoor has written articles on how to craft DEI and LGBTQ policy at the workplace as well as articles about the effects of microaggressions (2)(3)(4)(5). The company asks users about gender identity in order to address pay inequity in the workplace (6)(7)(8). Glassdoor is part of the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act and signed its brief opposing HB2 in North Carolina as well as its business statement on anti-LGBTQ state legislation (9)(10)(11). The company signed a public brief with the HRC to push for LGBTQ civil rights (12).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

There are no publicly known cases of Glassdoor donating to ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression (1).

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
Rationale

Glassdoor has not used its PAC donations for ideological purposes (1).

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May 23, 2023

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